Froome ponders rare Tour-Vuelta double (Reuters)

By Ian Chadband LONDON (Reuters) – Chris Froome celebrated his second Tour de France triumph with a bacon sandwich on Monday before chewing over the appetizing prospect of a rare grand tour double in Spain next month. Back in Britain following his second victory in the last three editions of the world’s greatest cycle race in Paris on Sunday, Froome said the “massive challenge” of the Tour-Vuelta double was at the back of his mind. Runner-up last year and in 2011 and fourth in 2012, Froome’s record in the Vuelta is impressive but only two cyclists in the history of the sport, great Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil (1963) and Bernard Hinault (1978), have achieved this monumental feat.